Construction Article Reviews Samples For Students

The quality of communication is good in article two because we can clearly see why Melvin’s has been able to attract and keep customers for a long time. Communication quality is relatively poor in the first and third article. In the first article, there is poor sentence construction leading to some level of communication breakdown. The third article has too much dialogue in between the article creating lack of flow in the story. The writing styles of the three articles are poor. Paragraphing is poor as the paragraphs in all the three articles are too short with some being ...

Article Summary:

In the U.S. Construction Industry

Magazine: McGill Journal of Education, 2013

Article: “Doing it Old School: Peer Led Occupational Safety Training
In the U.S. Construction Industry” by Clayton Sinyai, Pete Stafford & Chris Trahan

Summary of the Article:

The article entitled “Doing it Old School: Peer Led Occupational Safety Training” written by Sinyai, Stafford, & Trahan (2013) presented relevant information regarding conducting training programs by trade and construction workers within the construction industry. As divulged, the construction industry recognized as one of the most risky and hazardous industries require knowledge and adherence to safety standards. The authors initially presented a historical overview of the emergence of peer-led and union based outreach ...

Carole Vance’s article, “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality,” explains how the social construction theory can be used to help understand LBGTQ+ identities. As discussed previously, essentialism assumes that all things, at the essence, are the same or share a similar experience. However, this does not take culture into consideration, and just how far humans are constructed socially. Vance explains that the LBGTQ+ community would benefit from identifying as a socially constructed group, because assuming that sexuality is finite or natural is an essentialist argument that completely undermines people who are sexually fluid and rejects the idea ...

Sathyanarayanan Rajendran, and John A. Gambatese (2009) in their research on the “Development and Initial Validation of Sustainable construction Safety and Health Rating System,” seek to validate the sustainable construction safety and health (SCSH) rating system. The main focus of the authors was to establish a rating system on the degree of implementation of safety and health elements in construction. The main target audiences are the health professional from various sectors of the construction industry, the contractor, and construction regulation agencies. The authors used the Delphi research methodology to develop the SCSH. A Delphi survey was used in the research ...

Yes, the title page is clear and concise.

No, the article promises much to be achieved some of which cannot be catered for in this research. For instance, the article provides a pure research on the main subject and barely recommends besides providing references to appropriate institutions for solution.

Introduction/ Theory or Background/ Literature Review

Yes the research states clearly the thesis statement together with the research question. According to the research, tertiary institutions should solve the issue of HCSs in their prospectuses. Again, industry corporations and confederations should elevate the level of awareness and create plans for the application of HCSs.
Yes, the necessary aspects of the problem are well defined. For ...

A consolidated tax return is a return filed for all the different segments of a business, it also includes the return filed by a holding company along with its subsidiaries. A consolidated return shows the consolidates income as well as the expenses. The advantages of filing a consolidated return is that the profits of one company as written off with the loses of the other, there is a tax advantage on inter company distributions, the un used credit of one company can be transferred to the other company and the capital gains and losses can be adequately adjusted. Disadvantages of the same are that ...

The Construction Cost Trends for 2014 September/ October2014 issue

The BNi@ Building News and Design Cost DataTM are regarded as important American magazines used in the construction industry. They are the leading providers of the industry intelligence. The articles are mainly devoted to delivering the industrial critical information to help in providing reliable cost estimates to all the industry concerned bodies. The article is quite helpful for the construction professionals’ on matters such as projecting future building cost and the building trends (BNi@ Building News 24).

Authors and Audience

The Construction Cost Trends for 2014 magazine contributed by BNi@ Building News, shows how the housing trend is recovering from many parts ...

Supply chain managers may see decline in warehouse vacancies

The article “Supply chain managers may see decline in warehouse vacancies” talks about the decline of vacancies in warehouses across the country, highlighting that this trend is a sign of revival of the U.S. economy after a few years of post-2008 recession. The momentum is strong both in leasing and absorption, as well as in the level of construction, indicating that warehouses may no longer remain vacant, as it was the case during the previous years.
The news about higher activity in the commercial real estate market seems to be a sign of the overall economic recovery. The demand for warehousing space ...

The article discusses changes that have taken place over time in the gender construction of women in China.

The article is premised on establishing the relationship between changes in the economic state of China and its impact on women relative to the gender construction in the Chinese society. It also traces the path that Chinese women have taken to assume the current position they hold in the Chinese public sphere. Indeed, the article further advances the argument that gender constructions of women in the western society cannot be used to explain the gender construction of women in China. The article notes that women issues were for a long time disregarded in the development discourse in China. In earlier ...

Ergonomics Principles and Using IT as a Remedy for Probable Work Related Injuries in Construction Projects by Mojtaba Valinejad Shoubi, Azin Shakiba Barough, Amin Rasoulijavaheri

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Ergonomics Principles and Using IT as a Remedy for Probable Work Related Injuries in Construction Projects” which was written by Shoubi, Barough and Rasoulijavaheri presented relevant issues pertaining to evaluating Muscoloskeletal Disorders (MSDs) which were deemed particularly predominant in the construction industry. An initial overview of MSDs, also revealed to be known as Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs) were provided through the disclosure of information on the work-related problem from previous related literatures. Thus, ...

This paper gives a reader’s guide for the course work. It gives an analysis of the political influences on the conservation of national parks and building of dams. For a very long time, the United Stats of America (USA) has faced a lot of problems as far as its environmental conservation is concerned.
First and foremost, it is important to agree with the presenter for arguing that the National Parks and the designated wildernesses are some of the most important preservationist class of land in the country. Whereas some National Parks are located within the designated wildernesses, some designated wildernesses ...

Early Settlers

Andrew J. Russell is best known for his artwork about the Central Pacific Railroad that was built in 1869. The photos capture the construction as well as the natives and how they participated in the construction. Therefore, the art can be used to describe the native or settlers during the construction. The culture and the economic development of the settlers appears to have changed over the years as a result of construction of the transport services.
The early American settlers had poor means of transport and communication until the development of the railways. The settlers were mostly used in ...

Question one

Racism is an aspect that has become part and parcel of our daily lives today. People view the world regarding the aspect of race. Racism is what differentiates the people into categories: Black, white, Asian, and others. The way people view and take each other is what affects the various aspects of their daily lives, that is, the job place, kind of friends, schools to attend, as well as money people makes. All these aspects are affected by the one social construction that is the race.
The power of illusion documentary series shows how racism has gone a greater ...

A. Brief Overview of “Is Hooking Up bad for Young Women?”

Several authors look at the sex culture in today’s youths in comparison to the baby boomers. Jessica Valenti(2010) for instance argues that the problem with America today is not the casual sex as it is not new but the moral panic that exists. The mass media has driven sociologists and psychologists to investigate young hookups even more closely. Statistics by CDC and the NHSLS show that young adults today are having far less sex than the baby boomers. Hookups are not free for all as portrayed by the media but is rather a safe manoeuvre by young adults ...

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Paper Critique

The classmate’s project presented has been converted into a very intelligent video that presents information into a very captive format from a classroom scenario. The project is named as “The Authentic use of Laptops in Classrooms”. The project has two parts one is a video uploaded to YouTube and another is a Microsoft power point presentation consisting of nine slides.
The YouTube video shows that in a classroom where four students are studying, three are distracted by technology while only one is taking notes in a ...

In what sense does the subsection "Protecting Our Zones of Interaction with Our Young Children" tie in with the Social Construction of Reality? Please be specific and draw from examples in the book chapter.
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman have put forward the theory of Social Construction of Reality. This theory states that the way we present ourselves to others is dependent on how we are raised and what we are raised to believe. In other words, the way in which an individual perceives reality is colored by their beliefs and background. In the book the Big Disconnect, the ...

The field of Civil Engineering deals with the design considerations, actual construction and maintenance of both man-made and naturally built structures and environment. Most people perceive Civil Engineering as that subject whose focus is limited to only buildings and roads. In fact, there are a lot more: from roads, tunnels, canals, bridges, retaining walls, highways, dams, industrial plants, airports, water and wastewater treatment, oil refineries, just to mention a few. All these parts require expertise in Civil Engineering. Undergraduate education in this field provides all the basic subjects that every student is expected to be conversant with. They include: ...

Introduction

Essentialism or the idea of an essentialist in gender is founded on the belief of the late 1960’s that women should be minors and their jobs primarily relating to housewives, they included saying nursing say teaching. This is called an idea or the belief of an essentialist because people assumed that women, being women had limited skill sets that were present by their gender. Carole Vance looks at this idea of a social constructionist theory, and then looks at it again against the essentialist theory in the setting or the background of feminism. Essentialism as a tool of identification is. ...

The main ideas of the theoretical reading focus on the material and the way building are made. They focus on the methods of cladding that meant to provide shelter and protection. The focus is to keep in mind that the needs and durability of each building are different and what may be suitable for one may not be so for the other. Different buildings have failed because of various problems and therefore raise different questions. Every material used in architecture carries its own definition and worth. The principle of cladding is an important one in the vocabulary of every ...

Article Critique

Immigration in the US has for long been a controversial debate, having both its pros and cons. On the one hand of attaining cheap and valued labour, it also poses an imminent threat to the Native Americans on the grounds of employment. One of the main reasons of the conflict also resides in the diversity of the ethnicities. Often there are clashes on the basis of colour, creed or any other discrimination the human conscience has crop up. Unsurprisingly, the US Government in various states is now coming up with stronger laws and stricter punishments to drive these illegal citizens ...

Introduction

Energy usage and savings has become a major factor in the design of buildings. The performance of buildings is important for the design life of the building and contributes to cost incurred in the long run. The article provides a summary of research findings on the benefits of exterior energy improvements and provides reasons why it is important to construct a building envelope energy evaluation. The purpose of carrying out an energy evaluation is developing the best approach when doing an improvement project on a building.
John L. Pierson who is an engineering services manager with over 17 years experience in the ...

Chapter Reviews from Cities of Tomorrow

2. The City of Dreadful Night
In Chapter 2, “The City of Dreadful Night,” Hall discusses the terrible working and living conditions in cities during the industrial revolution. The living conditions in Victorian London and other industrialized cities, caused by migration and economic restructuring, led to revolts, middle class fears of working class revolts and a growing number of researchers and reformers interested in learning more about or improving conditions in cities. There were significant fears of revolt in London in the 1880s following the 1884 Reform Act. The rapid growth of urban population created various problems and required ...

How Men Look

William Stern, his article ventures in research on the male species, a discussion of how focusing on men appearance, is subversive because of the belief that men act while women appear. Stern analyzes the various instances where masculinity coding is only through visual means and not inherent in the physiology of the male body. According to Stern, "not one author took the naked (male) body itself as being emblematic of masculinity" (page 56); description, notions, and opinions about masculinity always through attributes, attenuations, and attitudes thus a social construction of universality and objectivity.

Studying Masculinity in Books about Girls

In this article, Hellen Harper through ...

The current literature on project management is luxuriant, treating similar topics in different approaches. For instance, the topic of critical success factors in project management has been approached from a qualitative data collection perspective in Aliaz, Zawawi, Yusof and Aris’ (2014) article “Determining Critical Success Factors of Project Management Practice: A Conceptual Framework”. The same topic has been approached with a quantitative data collection model in Denni-Fiberesima and Rani’s (2011) article “An Evaluation of Critical Success Factors in Oil and Gas Project Portfolio in Nigeria”.
Aliaz et al (2014) indicate that their data is comprised of critical success ...

Article Review: Gender Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective

Executive Summary
The article “Gendering Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective” by Wonders and Danner (2015) represents the study on the dialectical relationship that exists between socially constructed gender and climate change. Within their study, the scholars examine several issues to support their idea and explain logically the importance of the problem under consideration and the usefulness of feminist criminological perspective for analysis of climate change issues.
First of all, they provide the results of the review of the current criminological literature, stating that feminist perspective has been largely ignored in most criminology literature covering the issues of climate ...

Part A--Look up the definitions to, or find some information about, the following

before you start the reading (these can be informal notes):
Macadam— Broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.

Subsidy—

Flat fare—
Robert Moses—
Henry Ford—
Mass transit—
Horse cars—
Trolleys--
Hinterland--
FHA—
VA--

Mortgage--

Beltway—
Red-lining---
Edge city—
Lobbying interests--
1956 Interstate Highway Act--

Part B--Be prepared to answer the following in our class discussion:

Why is Henry Ford such an important figure in this history?
Henry Ford made the cars affordable to the millions of people. The new cars cheap and reliable and the assembly lines made the production much faster and more efficient. The ...

Israel and Palestine have been fighting over Gaja for decades. The ongoing struggle has left Gaja in ruins. The ongoing siege of the Gaja territory by Israeli forces has made it impossible for any humanitarian efforts to rebuild the Gaja strip. In the midst of this conflict, Coca-Cola has decided to invest in the Gaja territory and is set to build a factory. The author examines the real reasons behind such investment and takes a microscopic look at the deal to determine whether this investment will be for the benefit of people residing in the Gaja strip or will ...

Hotel Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas was built in 1995. Three years later, on 25th January 2008 a fire broke and destroyed some parts of the hotel. It is believed that the main factor for the start of this fire was the welding that happened on the on a catwalk at the roof high screen parapet wall of the Monte Carlo Hotel (Beitel, J., & Evans, D., 2011). The investigation results were never published. However, the questions remained. What were the things that contributed to the spread of fire trough out the building?
The investigators examined the constructions material ...

Kimmel has managed to illustrate a critical point on society and masculinity. The idea that a “man” should always have a strong and countenance devoid of weak emotions like crying is valid to many societies today. Unconsciously, the society has become accustomed to the predictability of manhood that no one seems to focus on the emerging male stereotypes. As a male child grows, the family bestows on him certain levels of faith of manhood that synonymously coincides with the predictions of Kimmel. In my life as I grew up, for instance, my parents kept chiding any attempt of constant crying. Of course, they ...

The economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008 is often compared to the Great Depression. The crisis has caused hundreds of thousands of small tragedies, depriving people of homes and livelihoods. Knowing about the events that occurred in the last century, one could not help drawing an analogy with the current global financial crisis. All began in the United States, again everything started with the financial sector and then spread to the real economy, the stock market collapsed, consumer demand plummeted, unemployment increased drastically, money devalued. Although the past events are reminiscent of the current situation, are ...

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Abstract

The “Ginkgo Biloba: Evaluation of Memory” study is about the effectiveness Ginkgo Biloba herbal medicine, which’s primary purpose is to increase cognitive health in aging patients through double blind and placebo controlled study. The study included 3072 out 7709 participants randomly selected from four communities in the US i.e., Hagerstown, Maryland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; and Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina over a period of 20 months from September 2000 to May 2002.

Ginko Balboa: Evaluation of Memory

The Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory study is about Ginkgo Biloba herbal medicine, which's primary purpose, is to increase cognitive health in aging patients through double ...

Part 2: A Different Mirror [Chapter 1]

Rather than an unfolding, sanitized look at America’s historical past leading to its present in terms of ethnic diversity, Takaki takes the reader on a mini lecture-tour across time. In the chapter discussion he re-routes the audience to consider that the ideals and decisions of the U.S. forefathers (i.e. Thomas Jefferson) held the initial power and responsibility to establish the tone, power structure and belief of what evolved to become ‘American’ culture. Takaki agrees that the “narrow” focus “widely shared” is a generally accepted sense that an ‘American’ is a so-called designated ‘white’ person having descended from an Anglo Europe. The ...

Monique Wittig asserts that lesbians are not women. The argument has not only excited academic and non-academic interest, but perhaps most importantly, it defies dominant cultural definitions and categorizations of sexuality and gender. This argument also threatens the established theoretical structure of political work that is founded upon women’s identity, including feminism. There is effectively no natural categorization of women, and thus equally no natural subject matter upon which feminism could be founded. Hale questions the possibility that women do not exist outside the conceptual context of the heterosexual political regimes. Instead, Hale develops an alternative construction of ...

PSYC101 Journal Article ReviewAssignment - Part 2Article Analysis, Connection, and ReflectionDue: 11:55pm ETSunday at the end ofWeek 6of the 8-week course termYou may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 6.Points Possible: 140
OVERVIEW: For Part I of this two-part assignment you identified and summarized elements of a published scholarly article selected from the classroom Resources Folder. For Part 2, which is due by the end of Week 6, you will analyze, connect, and reflect on aspects of your selected article. Note that the words “succinct” and “thorough” repeat regularly ...

Introduction

“Cogito ergo sum” is a Latin phrase translated in English as “I think, therefore I am”. The phrase was Rene Descartes’ (1596-1650) philosophical proposition of existence in that he knew he was somewhere as an entity because of his capacity to have thoughts. The proposition has been perceived by western scholars as the foundation for all knowledge because while some objects can be queried if the belong to the realm of imagination or reality, the act of doubting ones existence is proof enough of the reality of their existence (Broughton, 109). I agree with Descartes proposal based on my idea ...

The following is a review article on two Environmental Case opinions of two different panels of judges. The first case is related with an expansion plan for a nuclear energy based energy distribution company to which certain Environmental Groups raised issues of inconsistency of data provided by the company for permissions to acquire and keep land for future purposes. The second case is related to a natural gas distribution company that wished to lay a pipeline through United States area, although the pipeline would supply from one Canadian state to the other.
The first case (470 F.3d 676, *2006 U.S. App. LEXIS ...

The article reports on a Cessna 525A jet accident. At the time of the accident, the jet was found with four bodies’ two men and two women whose identities could be immediately established. Charles Muttillo vice president of Morley builders of Santa Monica issue a statement stating that the jet was ferrying Mark Benjamin, CEO of Santa Monica-based Morley Construction, and his son, Luke Benjamin, a senior project manager with the company, and two other occupants from Hailey Idaho to Santa Monica California. The pilot did not report any mechanical trouble prior to landing and there was no any communication from the ...

Scientific Method is a process which researchers utilize in exploring observing and carrying out the necessary experiments in a bid to ascertain the reliability of collected information relating to a specific phenomenon. Accordingly, the methodology usually entails four major steps. These steps include observation, hypothesis, predicting and experimenting. Observation is basically the studying and describing a particular trend while the second step involves the formulation of a theory that seeks to explain the experience.

Observation may, in most cases, take into consideration previous studies. Consequently, the prediction phase relate to using the hypothesis formulated to make a prediction with reference to the observable facts. The ...